The 6.2 magnitude quake struck overnight, 250 kilometres northwest of Nuku'alofa, at a depth of 14 kilometres.

It was felt in Fiji, Tonga and other parts of the Pacific.

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Other Environment News

05 Nov: The number of Southerners without power is down to double digits - nearly two weeks since wild winds cut nearly 25 thousand homes off

04 Nov: A win for some people in the bottom of the South Island - with power back on for some left in the dark for more than 10 days

04 Nov: This year's winning Bird of the Year - karearea is attacking Wellington walkers on a popular bush walk

04 Nov: Whangarei's famous lion park's last seven elderly big cats - are being euthanised this week

04 Nov: People in Kaikoura are being urged to look for nationally vulnerable Hutton's shearwater birds, which may have crash landed

03 Nov: The fire is still burning at a house in Wellington's Island Bay - reported just before seven this evening

03 Nov: A house fire in Chrischurch's Hoon Hay last night isn't being treated as suspicious

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